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		</div><p>The UN Security Council has unanimously approved a resolution strongly condemning increasing killings, torture and human rights violations in Burundi and threatening possible sanctions against those contributing to the violence.</p>
<p>The vote follows an urgent call by international leaders for a meeting of Burundi’s government and opposition as fears continued that the African nation is at risk of a Rwanda-like genocide.</p>
<p>Top UN officials and human rights groups have urged action against what witnesses call a deadly government crackdown on opposition members.</p>
<p>The resolution asks Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to deploy a team to Burundi to work with the government, African Union and other partners to “develop options to address political and security concerns”.</p>
<p>Statements by government officials last week echoed language used in the 1994 genocide in neighbouring Rwanda, where more than 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and Hutu moderates were killed in a campaign orchestrated by Rwanda’s extremist government of majority Hutus.</p>
<p>Like Rwanda, Burundi has a history of tensions between its Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups.</p>
<p>At least 240 people have been killed in Burundi since protests began in April against President Pierre Nkurunziza’s ultimately successful quest for a third term.</p>
<p>The AU has asked the East African Standby Force to expedite contingency planning to deploy to Burundi if the situation gets worse.</p>
<p>A UN peacekeeping department spokesman said that the deployment of UN peacekeepers from Congo has been mentioned as another possibility.</p>
<p>The joint statement by the UN, EU and AU on the sidelines of a major summit on migration in Malta called for a meeting of representatives of Burundi’s government and opposition in Addis Ababa, where the AU is based, or Kampala, Uganda.</p>
<p>A regional bloc has nominated Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni to mediate the crisis, but the talks have not started.</p>
<p>Thursday’s joint statement warned of “the threat for many more lives and a deep regional crisis” and said the organisations agreed to “work closely together and to mobilise all our means and instruments to prevent a further deterioration of the situation”.</p>
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